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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸

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👩🏽‍💻 #FilipinoAmerican Scientist 🧪 • #InvisibleDisability 🌻 • She/Hers Personal Account! ✨

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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hi, historian of eugenics here. There’s actually not much difference between this and midcentury eugenics because midcentury eugenics was much more than just murderous coercion by the Nazis!
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 27/07/2026
My friends and I have a book club set up on @thestorygraph.com and the asynchronous-friendly features always impress me 🥹 I’m able to leave comments on our current book, “The Raven Scholar,” by Antonia Hodgson and mask spoilers for other people that haven’t reached the same % of progress 🙌🏽❤️
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I'm just gonna leave this here.
Mayor Mamdani streamed the Knicks game on 130 LinkNYC kiosks across the city.
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 13/06/2026
After a sad departure from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, I was able to find a role in industry! 🥹✨ The job market was really tough (some places had ~5-7 rounds of interviews), especially while managing post-surgery healing … but made it through! 🙌🏽 #AcademicChatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
NYC Postdocs: join us for this month's Postdoc Night Science event! Having a science buddy is crucial for the creative process. So this time we're meeting at a bar near Union Square for some science buddy "speed dating". RSVP: tinyurl.com/3t5us6hp!
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 16/05/2026
I finally visited the Mr. Charlie’s TMS that opened up close to me after my run this morning! 🍔🍟🥤 The interior is a VIBE 💛❤️
A fisheye photo taken of the interior of the Mr. Charlie’s TMS fast food restaurant in the San Diego Pacific Beach neighborhood. The interior is almost entirely firetruck red: red tile with white grout on the wall behind the register and the front of the counter, and a red wall with italicized Mr. Charlie’s in sans serif font in bright goldenrod yellow covering the left wall. In the photo are metal round tables and backless metal chairs—all bright yellow to match the restaurant’s logo. The hardwood brown floor is brightly polished, but there’s not a single employee in sight in the image.
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
PMOS, short for Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, is the new name for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, just announced this week in a paper in the medical journal The Lancet. Read the Lancet paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth #PeriodFriendlyWorld 2/16
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Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome: a multistep global consensus process
Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), previously named polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), affects one in eight women. However, the term PCOS is inaccurate, implying pathological ovarian cyst...
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 14/05/2026
I haven't posted here in a while, but I got the notice at the end of last month that due to a lack of funding, I've been laid off from my postdoctoral position 🥲 My last day with @ucsandiego.bsky.social is on May 29th and it's very bittersweet as a double alumni to be on the chopping block 🧜‍♂️
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/04/2026
I’m now a month post endometriosis surgery and it’s absolutely crazy how much better my pain has gotten since they were able to cut out lesions and suspicious regions! 💛✨ I did also recently use my FSA dollars to upgrade to the byACRE rollator for when I need to manage chronic nerve pain episodes 🤩
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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 04/04/2026
It's amazing what institutes in the @pasteur.fr network are able to accomplish when they're not being bombed by the US and Israeli militaries 👀
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Critical for anyone who uses GitHub - if you've used GitHub Copilot at all, Microsoft is about to start putting basically all of your code and the entire trajectory of all actions you took into training. You need to opt out by April 24th. github.blog/news-insight...
Outputs accepted or modified by you
Inputs sent to GitHub Copilot, including code snippets shown to the model
Code context surrounding your cursor position
Comments and documentation you write
File names, repository structure, and navigation patterns
Interactions with Copilot features (chat, inline suggestions, etc.)
Your feedback on suggestions (thumbs up/down ratings)
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San Diego Humane Society @sdhumane.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Please take extra precautions to keep your animals safe during this heatwave in San Diego County! Important tips, graphics and FAQ's are available at sdhumane.org/heatsafety.
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 17/03/2026
I’ve had the month off for FMLA leave to recuperate physically and mentally after my surgery … and playing lots of #Pokopia 🥹✨ I’ll be returning to lab and whatnot in early April, and I’m excited to slowly get back to bioinformatics and research! 💪🏽💪🏽
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A more complete set of voices in a companion piece. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
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The people — and research — lost in the NIH exodus | CNN
Sylvia Chou, 51
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/03/2026
Check out this preprint I can’t wait to read 📄🧬💻👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Well done to @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social and all members of the team! Truly inspiring to see this sort of work being done!
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Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
First, a couple of weeks ago: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Single cell RNAseq on blood from 200 donors across 4 sites in Indonesia spanning regional axes of genetic and environmental diversity. This is one of very few scRNA data sets from the Global South, including urban and rural settings.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I just tried to register. The March date is already listed as Full! I did register for the April date. You have a chance to enter questions. I don't know if there will be another opportunity to do this.
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a close up of a man wearing glasses looking at another man 's face .
ALT: a close up of a man wearing glasses looking at another man 's face .
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 05/03/2026
Also, happy endometriosis awareness month 🌻💛 People in my life have asked why I’m open about my health 🏥 and a BIG reason is to bring enough awareness to conditions to encourage ACTION ✊🏽 📣 There’ll also be events in New York City this week hosted by www.endofound.org if people are interested 💪🏽
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Endometriosis, Foundation, EndoFound, Endometriosis Foundation of America
Endometriosis Foundation of America | a 501(c)3 Tax-exempt, Tax-deductible Organization
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I don't let my social media platforms define what kind of loser I am
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
me needing romantacy audiobooks to survive the horrors puts my grandma's soap operas in a whole new light lol
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 09/02/2026
After navigating delayed flights and cancellations due to snowy weather, my husband and I finally made it to Sapporo for our honeymoon! ❄️🗻 We haven’t travelled with just the two of us for a while, so it’s nice to be able to spend time relaxing with your person 😭✨❤️
A photo outside the window of the Grand Blissen Hotel in Jozankei, a region in the Sapporo area of Japan. There is a large mountain in the view of the window that is covered with the deep brown, stripped trunks of trees during the wintertime. Some of the trees have caught the snow, and some still have bushy, dark emerald-colored leaves. In the middle ground is a grey apartment building with approximately 10 floors in view that has a flat roof entirely covered in snow. Several buildings sit beside it, all also covered in snow. The photographer has her legs crossed and resting on a burnt orange ottoman, and she’s wearing blue, starchy linen hotel-issue bottoms, along with grey tabi socks.
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 13/01/2026
I lectured today for a Practical Bioinformatics course and the JupyterHub for the class wasn’t working for people 😭 So instead of just my “Intro to pandas, matplotlib, and seaborn” interactive session, I also did an ad-hoc lesson on how to install packages and create environments with conda 🥲
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Lolll.... "Denmark changes Greenland's name to 'Epstein's Island' so Trump stops talking about it"
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 09/01/2026
Why the new food guidelines look like Cards Against Humanity
Four new pamphlets from the USDA about the food pyramid that all look like CAH cards
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 09/01/2026
You don't get to turn your chatbot into a tool of mass sexualized harassment and then two weeks later say the problem is fixed because the abusers have to pay for the privilege.
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Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
Editing function to be limited to paying subscribers after X threatened with fines and regulatory action
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 09/01/2026
Oh goodness—you know you’re a regular at your local coffee shop if they have your drink ready by the time you get to the cashier 😭 🫣 Shoutout to The Forum in San Diego, California for fueling my early morning remote work sessions and dog training sessions with Yuuki (She looks like a seal in this)
A pale cream-colored Shiba Inu sits patiently toward the right-hand side of the photograph waiting for a treat that her owner is holding behind the camera—she is very reminiscent of a seal with the angle of the photo. Slightly unfocused toward the left-hand side of the photo is a Iced Avatar, a matcha latte with horchata from the coffee shop, the Forum, in San Diego, California. The lighting in the photo is from the sun, which is behind the subjects in the photo.
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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels
Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels.

Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey.

Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.Text reads:
Question-writing best practices
To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices:

Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions.
Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?”
Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”Text reads:
Discussion
The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002)
of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 16/12/2025
Attended this course led by @drtoriespy.bsky.social and it was cool to learn about how to talk about science with journalists 🎙️ 📰 🧪 🎉 Thanks to @sciline.org for getting this session together and to @sheckmo.bsky.social for your insight during the Q&A session! 🙌🏽 ✨ I'm excited for future workshops! 🤩
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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/12/2025
ProPublica reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained by immigration agents. “The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
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The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 09/12/2025
I had a small non-science-related win 👀 🧪 My doctor FINALLY sent in a referral for me to get an exploratory laparoscopy for endometriosis 😭 💖 It only took ~10 years 🥲 I've been pushing through a lot of pain with this #InvisibleIllness 🌻 lately--hopefully they're able to find what's wrong with me! 🫠
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/12/2025
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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Redirecting
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/12/2025
Overall trust in scientists and medical professionals is still rather high (Pew 2024). And only about 7% of American/Canadian respondents in a study (Gravelle 2022) are stridently anti-vax. MAHA is platforming views of a very small minority, to erode the majority.
Chart Title: Confidence in scientists up slightly but remains lower than before pandemic. 
% of US adults who have % of confidence in scientists to act in the best interests of the public. 

In 2024, 76% had a "fair amount" of confidence in scientists, and 26% have a "great deal" of confidence. Gravelle 2022, "For each country, the modal class comprises those who “strongly support” vaccines. Importantly, despite concerns about vaccines being common, a majority are in one of the two pro-vaccine classes (UK: 76%, Canada: 69%, and US 60%). In all three countries, the percentage classified as ardently “anti-vax” is very small. Only 7% of American and Canadian respondents and 3% of British respondents can be identified as anti-vax."
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California King Tides Project @kingtides.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
See from above, water covers an off-ramp of highway 101 and a parking lot next to the highway and bikepath.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/12/2025
This is the first time Pantone has chosen a shade of white. The company says it's "a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection." n.pr/4rDF0jv
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You read that white: Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year is 'Cloud Dancer'
This is the first time Pantone has chosen a shade of white. The company says it's "a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection."
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 04/12/2025
🤔 MyChart unwrapped ... ⚕️ 💭 💸 Medical appointments this year to date cost a grand total of $170,431.64 💸 Luckily, you have insurance! 🏥 ✨ 🚑 You went to the Emergency Room TWICE this year, with one visit amounting to $16,920.81! 🤯 📹 You had 9 video visits, with most in Women's Health and Neurology 🧠
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 04/12/2025
I've spent so much time cleaning and harmonizing various genetics datasets that I'm working with for my postdoctoral project and this whole ordeal feels like a lot of invisible work that isn't really appreciated (and sometimes feels looked down upon by my peers) 🫠 🧬 💻 🧪
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 25/11/2025
Sometimes, #endometriosis pain is really rough despite the heated blankets, hot water bottles, and pain meds that I have to try and alleviate things 🫠 I was on 200 mg of Orilissa twice daily and it was LIFE CHANGING to be pain free! ✨ But after a year, my insurance will no longer cover things 🥲 😭
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
One of the themes of our new police state is the sheer lack of professionalism. They can't do the basics, and when challenged, double down. A dysfunctional organizational culture deeply suspicious of the society they are tasked with controlling. bsky.app/profile/radl...
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Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @mragsac.com · 19/11/2025
The three-year anniversary of my PhD defense is steadily approaching ✨ Even though I'm far removed now, I still continue to hear concerning accounts about the lab environment where I did my graduate work... I'm so relieved newer students are openly discussing lab culture fit and mental health! 💖
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 15/11/2025
seems bad
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